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The MacBook is the "Retina MacBook Air"

All anyone wanted with the MacBook Pro was: better performance, 32GB RAM, better battery life.

It's a pro machine, it's meant to sacrifice some portability for pro features.



Current ads on TV in the UK suggest that the target market for the Macbook Pro is first-year undergrads.

Someone on here said that if you mentally replace "pro" in Applespeak with "deluxe" it starts to make a bit more sense.


> The MacBook is the "Retina MacBook Air"

Unfortunately, no it is not. The processor in those things is pretty crippled, and the lack of ports is beyond ridiculous.


I was thinking about switching to the 12" MacBook instead of the 13" Pro for portability reasons alone, but every time I ran my test suites on it, I realized it would be slower than my 2013 Air with a 1.7 GHz i7 and I gave it up.


> lack of ports is beyond ridiculous

That's not gonna change with Apple hardware anytime soon :(




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